Breeching attachivient for thills



(No Model.)

0. L. TINSLEY & W. P. ROSE.

BRBEGHING ATTACHMENT FOR THILLS. No. 335.401. Patented Feb. 2, 1886.

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CHARLES L. TINSLEY AND \VILLIAMI P. ROSE, OF iALTIMOR-E, MARYLAND.

BREECHING ATTACHMENT FOR THILLS.

EPIJCIPICA'I'ION forming part of Letters Patent No. 385,401, dated February 2, 1886.

Application filed July 14,1585.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, C. L. TINsLEY and XV. P. RosE, of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Breeching Attachments for Thills; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a plan view of our improved breechingattachment properly applied to the thills of a vehicle. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail of one of the attaching devices.

This invention relates to breeching attachments for the thills of vehicles, and its object is to provide a holdback-bar that will also act efiectually to guard the vehicle from the kicking of a wild or vicious horse.

Theinvention consists, mainly, in securing by rigid connections to the thills,so as to stand a proper distance above the same a rigid semielliptic holdback plate or bar; and it further consists in certain details of construction and arrangements hereinafter described,and pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings by letter, A designates the thills of ordinary construction, united by the transverse bar A, upon which the single-tree B is centrally pivoted in the usual way.

The attachment of each end of the holdtion of one attachment only is necessary.

Ois the se1ni-elliptic holdback-bar, made preferably of metal and in plate form with its edges vertical. The ends of said edges are beveled toward points, for a purpose hereinafter explained.

D and E are similar standard-supports se; cured to a thill a proper distance apart. The support D is composed of a horizontal fiat foot portion, (Z, bolted, riveted, or otherwise properly secured to the thill, a central portion, d, which curves upward and rearward from the foot (Z, and an upper horizontal plate portion, (Z which lies against the inner surface of the end of the holdback-bar. ThesupportE Serial Xo. 171,555. (No model.)

the thill, a central portion, 0, curving upward and forward from the foot, and a horizontal plate, a", which lies against the outer surface of the end of the holdback-bar. end and the plates (2 and e are properly riveted or bolted together, the end being beveled, as described, to prevent its edges making shoulders with the plates, which shoulders might irritate or wound the horse. The feet (Z and e and plate portions d and e of the supports D and E run from the central portions, d and e,in gentle curves,so that there may be no angles in the unions between the thills and the holdback-bar, which angles might wound or irritate the horse. The supports D and E both incline inward from the thill, so that the ends of the holdback-bar are not vertically above the same, and so that the line of curve of the said bar may be continued by the front support, D, from the end of said bar to the thill. By this means the rump of the horse can never come while backing into violent collision with the thill, and thereby loosen or break it. The holdback-bar stands sufficient-ly above the thills to strike against the horse but a few inches below his tail, so that he gives a more equal pressure over the surface of the bar,and can never wound or abrade his legs,save in the act of kicking. The holdback-bar being rigid and horizontal when the horse is attached, the pressure in backing will tend neither to depress nor elevate the thills, as a flexible or inclined bar would do.

To guard against the horse being abraded by the backward pressure, the holdback-bar is surrounded by a tight and sufficiently thick covering or sleeve, F, of leather, rubber, or other suitable material.

The invention has all the advantages of other similar breeching devices, such as making the harness more simple by doing away with the breeching-strap and oonnections, allowing the horse to back with more force, rendering his attachment more simple, quick,and easy, 8:0. It has, besides, the advantage that the bar presents an effectual barrier to the kicks of the horse reaching and injuring the body of the vehicle, and, as heretofore mentioned, the horse and thill are more effectually protected from injury than by any previous-invented is composed of a foot, 6, similarly secured to device for a like purpose.

The said g bar,

\Ve are aware that breeching devices attached to the thills to aid the horse in'backing and to render the harness more simple havebeen patented, and such we do not claim, broadly.

,VVe are aware that rigid holdback-bars have been connected to the thills of vehicles, and such we do not claim, broadly; but,

Having described our invention, we clai1n 1. The combination, with the thills of a vehicle, of the rigid semi-elliptic holdbacl -bar O, secured to the thills in such manner that it will be horizontal when the horse is in place, and at its ends only, by curved. bars that incline inward from the thills and form no angular corners therewith nor with the holdbackand the tight sleeve F, of soft material,

surrounding and padding the whole length of the holdback-bar, substantially as specified. 2. The combination, with the thills A A and the standard-supports D and E, respectively provided with the feet d and e for the attachment to the thills,an'd the plates at and e for attachment to the holdback -bar and inclining inwardly from the thills, of the rigid semi-elliptic holdback-bar 0, having its end beveled to prevent forming shoulders with the plates d and c and the tight sleeve F,covering the holdbaclr-b ar, all constructed and ar ranged substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we afiix our signatures in presence of .twowitnesses.

CHAS. L. TINSLEY. WILLIAM P. ROSE.

\Vitnesses:

\V. BAUMGARTEN,

JOHN WILLIAMs. 

